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Culture Of Course We Have To ‘Politicize’ The Pittsburgh Bloodbath. That’s What Jews Do.
This week, you will hear many voices telling you not to “politicize” the shootings in Pittsburgh. “I will not politicize the murder of 11 Jews,” celebrity rabbi Shmuley Boteach wrote, before bizarrely connecting Pittsburgh to the Iran deal. “Have a moment of silence, light a candle,” Shmuel Rosner suggested, and don’t “treat this butchery of…
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News 60 Years Ago It Was A Bomb In An Atlanta Synagogue
This was originally in the print edition of October 24, 1958, and was posted online in October 2018. October, close to the Jewish New Year, seems to be peak season for American anti-Semitic violence. Sixty years ago, in October 1958, America’s first successful satellite launch was followed swiftly on the front page of the Yiddish…
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Yiddish World Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting is Not State-Sponsored Terrorism
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. A good friend of mine insists on drawing a straight line between Robert Bowers, the alleged killer of eleven Jews at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue, and President Donald Trump’s “hateful” rhetoric on the campaign trail. My friend didn’t buy my argument that Barack Obama was president…
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Community My Recipe For Healing In Squirrel Hill
I don’t know why, as a country, we expect our political leaders to provide comfort when the world is in chaos. As a state senator, I know my constituents usually want me to use my position to ensure their voices are heard. Traditionally, we have looked to the president to provide words that unify us…
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Community We Can Heal Squirrel Hill By Standing Together — As We Have Always Done
I’ve lived in New York City longer than I lived in Pittsburgh, but I still consider the ‘burg’ my home. While I root for the Yankees, I’m still a Pirates fan at heart. Admittedly, football is not my favorite sport, but if it comes to following the Steelers over any other team, I’m in! Years…
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Fast Forward Meet Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto, The ‘Adopted Jew’ Who’s Leading Resistance To Trump
Bill Peduto, the mayor of Pittsburgh, could be easily be mistaken for a Jew in the right setting. Lately he has sported a white beard with horn-rimmed glasses; his penchant for puns and jokes is well-known. And for Peduto, the murder of 11 congregants at the Tree of Life synagogue on Saturday was more than…
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Opinion I’m Israeli And I’m Ashamed My Government Sent Naftali Bennett To Comfort Pittsburgh Jews
In the wake of the massacre that led 11 dead in a synagogue in Pittsburgh, Trump is making his way there despite 26,000 Jews who signed a petition that he stay away. He’s not the only unwelcome politician to use the tragedy for a photo-op. The State of Israel sent Education and Diaspora Minister Naftali…
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Community Pittsburgh Doesn’t Need More Guns — We Need Less White Supremacy
When I heard about the shooting at Tree of Life synagogue, the first thought that ran through my mind was, “I wonder if I know the attacker.” Growing up in a small town outside of Pittsburgh, I was often the only Jew that any of my classmates had met. I began to receive death threats…
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